That Joseph Stack was a software engineer who had a beef with the IRS doesn’t make it any less a case of terrorism. So let’s call it what it is.

Unfortunately, opportunists at both ends of the political spectrum are trying to use Stack’s murder of one innocent person and wounding of several others to make political points.

For some nutjobs on the right, Stack is a hero, a patriot who gave his blood in defense of liberty. Really? How many American heroes make their families homeless before offing themselves and an innocent civilian or two?

Stack’s politics, as expressed in his so-called manifesto, are a hodgepodge of incoherent rants from the left and right. It would be nice if people could manage to skip the political posturing and simply condemn the guy. Murder ought to be a non-partisan issue.